Singing Theatre is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 July 1992. Theatre.
Singing Theatre
- WRENN ID
- crooked-basalt-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 July 1992
- Type
- Theatre
- Address
- Singing Theatre, Tollard Royal
- OS grid reference
- ST 942 169
- Coordinates
- 50.95177, -2.08289
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Singing Theatre is a theatre completed in 1895, located in the Larmer Grounds. It features a timber frame clad in matchboarding and has a galvanised sheet roof. The building has a classical Roman plan with three doors leading onto the proscenium from the rear and includes an exedra in classical style. It is a single-storey structure with a semi-circular proscenium arch that has moulded imposts and an extrados leading to the stage, which is decorated with a painting of classical ruins that differs from the image shown in a photograph from 1900. The proscenium arch is framed by fluted Corinthian pilasters that rise to an entablature. The Singing Theatre is part of a series of structures built around 1880 at Larmer Grounds for General Pitt Rivers, reflecting his belief that education should be connected to entertainment.
Local climate
Singing Theatre receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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